We are pre-launching taketake.com. Taketake helps you share news of your wants and haves with your friends and the world. Think check-in, but for things instead of places.
People can request invitations to taketake, but no invitations are being sent out yet. We will begin to send invites later this month.
Would love to hear what you guys think.
Competitors: Blippy, Swipely, Svpply, TheFancy (thingd)
By the way, fantastic video. Might to share what you used to create it?
For the lack of content part we will be launching city by city and will be showing wants and haves from people living around your area. We are also working on our taste engine to show you things that we think you are interested in.
We've built a database of things, we've got about 50,000 things so far. Those were manually reviewed and curated by our team. So there will be some content on there that we will suggest you check out upon joining.
By the way, how did the idea come about? I'm asking because we're in social commerce ourselves and generally interested in developments in the space.
The idea spun from our internet marketing efforts at the time. Lots of people are searching for reviews online and there's so much spam content out there... we set to find a solution. It's only about a year later that we started to work full-time on the idea. It was the first time for us to work on a project like this and made all sorts of mistakes along the way. But we're finally done and releasing it!
Feel free to email me at matt at taketake, perhaps we can help each other in the space! Cheers!
Then when we're about to put the site live and had to remove the placeholders... it felt strange looking. So we came up with this idea!